The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal has given premier Lionel Mtshali until Wednesday to reinstate three ANC MECs he fired from the province’s coalition government or face unspecified action.
The floor crossing legislation, which allowed MPs and MPLs to defect to the party of their choice without losing their seats, is an indictment of South Africa’s democracy, KwaZulu-Natal agriculture and environmental affairs MEC Narend Singh said on Monday.
South Africa’s largest gold miner AngloGold (ANG) has budgeted R25,8-million for its group HIV/Aids programme in South Africa in 2003 from R16,2-million in 2002, the company’s HIV/Aids manager Dr Petra Kruger said on Tuesday.
With only hours to go before the close, at midnight on Friday, of the 15-day window period for MPs and MPLs to cross the floor to the party of their choice without losing their seats, the National Assembly has undergone a substantial change.
Controversy over rural security has deepened in South Africa with a government decision to phase out a paramilitary force that was part of the apartheid state’s security apparatus.
Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) MP and current KwaZulu-Natal MPL Jan Slabbert on Wednesday announced he is leaving the IFP to form a new party — the Peace and Development Party (PDP).
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has now officially beaten the Democratic Alliance (DA) in raiding the smaller parties during the two-week defection period allowing politicians to cross the floor.
Senior Inkatha Freedom Party MP Theresa Millin has defected from her party to form a new party — understood to be the African Independent Party.
Here in the Dorsbult the manne are very pleased about the World Cup cricket final. We’re happy because by Monday life will have returned to normal and we can watch the important sports — like darts, mud-wrestling and rugby — again on the box.
However, we don’t seem to be the only ones suffering from cricket-fatigue.
The African National Congress (ANC) was first to benefit from the first floor-crossing window period when a Democratic Alliance (DA) member crossed to the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal on Friday morning.
Scores of volunteers were arrested and others dispersed by a police water cannon as the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) civil disobedience campaign got underway on Thursday.
Staff at the United States consulate in Durban were evacuated on Thursday morning after a bomb threat, KwaZulu-Natal police reported.
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest retail property group, has concluded sales worth over R1-billion to foreign investors from 48 different countries over the past 11 months (1 March 2002 – 31 January 2003).
Justice minister Penuell Maduna distanced himself on Thursday from an attack on the region’s judiciary by a senior ANC MPL and pledged to protect the rights of South African judges to express their views.
A 27-year-old prostitute accused of murdering Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa’s brother, Rex, in November last year, reapplied for bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday.
Recent efforts to eliminate an alien invader between Pietermaritzburg and Durban have left residents and environmentalists in a froth. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Water and Forestry Affairs has sprayed a broad-spectrum glysophate herbicide on Hammarsdale dam
South Africa’s municipalities were owed R24,3-billion nationally in outstanding service tariffs in September last year, according to figures tabled before Parliament’s provincial and local government portfolio committee on Tuesday.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali on Monday scotched rumours that he would again reshuffle his Cabinet and dissolve his party’s co-operation pact with the African National Congress in the province.
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/ 27 February 2003
A teacher from Bulwer in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands will appear in court on Thursday morning on a murder charge after she allegedly knocked together the heads of four schoolboys, apparently killing one of them, Beeld reported.
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/ 27 February 2003
Nearly 80 Zulu warriors wearing armbands of white goat fur and loinclothes of antelope tails race down the battlefield of Isandlwana screaming and slapping their wooden clubs against their cowhide shields to rouse themselves for battle.
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/ 26 February 2003
A 72-year-old British tourist wrongly detained in South Africa on an American arrest warrant for nearly three weeks would be released once the paperwork had been finalised, the United States Embassy said on Wednesday
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/ 26 February 2003
Derek Bond and his wife Audrey were looking forward to their trip to South Africa, planning to tour of the country’s vineyards, to visit some of the most famous battle sites of the Boer war and to enjoy a little winter sun.
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/ 25 February 2003
The developed countries appear not to be honouring their pledges to the United Nations Global Fund on Aids, TB and Malaria, Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 February 2003
A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
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/ 21 February 2003
A 2,5 metre black mamba was killed on Friday at Hendrik Bruyns’ farm near Rorke’s Drift. The highly venemous snake had climbed into a fig tree near the homestead.
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/ 20 February 2003
It is hard to be a boy in South Africa. A recent survey of schools in KwaZulu-Natal found that male students and teachers experience uncertainty about their status and a sense of displacement due to the loss of their privileged space in society.
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/ 20 February 2003
The stage has been set at Parliament for MPs and members of the provincial legislatures to switch parties, possibly even as early as next month.
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/ 4 February 2003
The editor of The Mercury newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal defended his decision not to place an advert from pro-life organisation, Christians for Truth, saying that ”the paper encourages debate”.
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/ 30 January 2003
The ”so-called” out-of-court settlement between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to ”doctor” the TRC report was a cause for serious concern, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Thursday.
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/ 29 January 2003
An intruder was killed when three men attempted to break into the home of African National Congress KwaZulu-Natal chairman S’bu Ndebele outside Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday morning, police reported.
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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.
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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.